Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: 'Her ambition got it wrong about Joe': Harris faces debate backlash [View all]BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)It's pretty clear to me he just thought he could throw the ball on the field and win this, even though there is nothing in his previous history to suggest this campaign at an advanced age was going to be easy for him. His supporters complaining about Harris' "ambition" shows that entitlement runs very deep in the whole Biden 2020 enterprise.
The risk in challenging Biden the way Harris did is he remains very well-liked and her negatives will go up as a result. Remember how Obama handled a similar situation in a debate in the 2008 campaign; he basically said at the end of the day that Joe can be counted on to fight the good fight (which is even more true today) and most everybody, including Biden, loved him as a result.
Harris scored a near-term win with the debate but she would have been much better served IMO by not leveraging the Eastland comments to the hilt this early in the game and focus on building her own positives as a candidate first. There's only one Obama, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try to emulate him. Plus the early signs are there that Biden will lose this on his own without being pushed so why burn capital that you didn't need to spend.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided